IBM Showcases Cloud Marketplace, 'Composable Business' at Impact 2014

IBM Showcases Cloud Marketplace, 'Composable Business' at Impact 2014

Addressing Shifts in the Market

As the world moves to more of a mobile-first, cloud-first entity, businesses need to constantly reinvent and innovate their processes by tapping big data.

Delving Into the Composable Business

At Impact 2014, IBM shed more light on its "composable business" strategy. A "composable" business promotes reinvention and process innovation, improves decision making from actionable insights, and speeds time to market.

How to Get to a Composable Business

A composable business takes a mixture of cloud, mobile and big data.

IBM's Robert LeBlanc

Robert LeBlanc, senior vice president of IBM Software & Cloud Solutions, talks about building a composable business.

IT Leaders' Role

In a composable business, IT leaders need to focus on the cloud.

Developers' Role in Composable Businesses

Developers need access to APIs as the API economy becomes a key element of this approach.

IBM Cloud Marketplace

At IBM Impact 2014, IBM introduced its new Cloud Marketplace, which is more than an app store, claims LeBlanc.

Cloud Marketplace

This image shows the face of the IBM Cloud Marketplace with biz, dev and ops services.

IBM Cloud Marketplace Partners

IBM has enlisted a number of partners to provide their services on the IBM Cloud Marketplace.

New BlueMix Services

IBM announced a series of new services for its BlueMix platform as a service (PaaS), including for the Internet of things.

IBM BlueMix Garage

IBM announced a new effort to help startups easily build apps around the IBM BlueMix PaaS—the IBM BlueMix Garage. In conjunction with Galvanize, IBM opened the first BlueMix Garage in San Francisco to mentor entrepreneurs starting new tech businesses on the cloud.

IBM's Marie Wieck

Marie Wieck, IBM's general manager of MobileFirst, introduces new services and Ready Apps for MobileFirst.

IBM MobileFirst Application Development

The new MobileFirst app dev platform features enhancements to IBM's Worklight platform, BlueMix Mobile Cloud Services and the IBM-owned Cloudant database as a service (DBaaS).

IBM Ready Apps

IBM announced new industry-specific Ready Apps for its MobileFirst platform.

IBM MobileFirst Studios

IBM introduced new MobileFirst Studios consisting of experts, services and training to help mobile enterprises.

Developers and IBM Watson

One thousand developers responded to the question of what they would do with IBM's Watson cognitive computing technology. This chart depicts their sentiment.

At its IBM Impact 2014 conference, IBM launched its IBM Cloud Marketplace as way to deliver its portfolio of cloud services from both IBM and partners to the world at large. The new cloud marketplace provides a simple and easy experience for three key user groups within the enterprise: Developers, IT managers and business leaders can now learn about, try and buy software and services from IBM and its global partner ecosystem. With the new marketplace, IBM joins the ranks of cloud competitors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google, among others, that offer services via cloud computing. IBM has previously clearly stated its intent to become the leader in the cloud computing space, aiming squarely at AWS and its market-leading position. "The IBM Cloud Marketplace is really more than an app store; it's a place where you can get everything you need," said Robert LeBlanc, senior vice president of IBM Software & Cloud Solutions. In addition to introducing the concept of the "composable business" at IBM Impact, IBM also announced a host of new services for its BlueMix platform as a service (PaaS) as well as new Ready Apps and services for its MobileFirst platform. This slide show provides highlights from IBM Impact.

Darryl K. Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop. Taft is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was named 'one of the most active middleware reporters in the world' by The Middleware Co. He also has his own card in the 'Who's Who in Enterprise Java' deck.